Tomorrow, voters in New York's 9th Congressional District will head to the polls in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Democrat Anthony Weiner. There are three individuals running for the seat, the stooges of the Democratic and Republican parties, and a Socialist Workers Party candidate who petitioned his way onto the ballot. At the Battleground Blog, Darcy Richardson has an extensive article on Chris Hoeppner of the SWP. Excerpt:

With Republican Bob Turner clinging to a narrow lead over Democrat David Weprin in New York’s 9th
Congressional District, little-known Christopher R. Hoeppner of the
Socialist Workers Party could be a major factor in the outcome of
Tuesday’s hotly-contested special election to replace disgraced former
U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner. . . .

The son of a New York firefighter, the 61-year-old Hoeppner grew up
in Woodside, then a predominantly Irish-Catholic neighborhood in
Queens. Involved in left-wing politics for forty years, he joined the
Socialist Workers Party — or more precisely, the Young Socialist
Alliance — when he was still in high school and actively participated in
the antiwar movement during Vietnam.

Hoeppner, who ran for mayor of Seattle in 2005 before returning to
his New York roots, has been waging a whirlwind campaign throughout the
district, beginning with a Herculean petition drive over the Fourth of
July weekend, a monumental task that resulted in 7,080 signatures on
nominating petitions — more than twice the number required — to place
his name on the ballot.

Despite uncomfortably, if not painfully, hobbling around on crutches
— the result of a recently breaking his foot while returning home from
work one evening — the low-key yet determined socialist has been
campaigning like a man on a mission ever since . . .

Unlike the wealthy Turner, a retired advertising and television
executive, and Weprin, a Wall Street favorite who once served as deputy
superintendent of the New York State Banking Commission and chairman of
New York’s Securities Industry Association, Hoeppner describes himself
as the “only working-class candidate in the race.”